{"id":13480,"date":"2009-06-02T10:56:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T17:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13480"},"modified":"2009-06-02T10:56:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T17:56:56","slug":"motorcycle-roadracing-kart-valentino-rossi-to-race-lawson-rainey-and-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13480","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Roadracing Kart &#8211; Valentino Rossi to race Lawson, Rainey and Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Italian icon Valentino Rossi will race fellow Yamaha MotoGP world champion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey and Kenny Roberts in a special karting clash at the Laguna Seca GP in early July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 30-year-old Italian confirmed his participation in the one-off demo event on the eve of his home race in Mugello this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The legendary quartet will dice it out driving Yamaha TZ250 super karts on the Thursday afternoon before the American GP, which Rossi won for the first time in 2008 after a classic scrap with Ducati rival Casey Stoner.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Between them Rossi, Lawson, Rainey and Roberts have won 17 MotoGP world titles and Rossi said &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclenews.com\/MCN\/sport\/sportresults\/MotoGP\/2009\/May\/may2809-valentino-rossi-to-race-edwards-rainey-and-roberts\/?&amp;R=EPI-115292\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian icon Valentino Rossi will race fellow Yamaha MotoGP world champion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey and Kenny Roberts in a special karting clash at the Laguna Seca GP in early July. The 30-year-old Italian confirmed his participation in the one-off demo event on the eve of his home race in Mugello this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The legendary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,61,8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-karts","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13481,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions\/13481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}